Renegade game. Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K / 128K.

Renegade

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Platform: Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Game: Renegade

Publisher: Imagine

Year: 1987

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Arcade

Description

Renegade is a video game released in American and European arcades in 1986 by Taito. It is a westernized conversion (including changes to all of the sprites and backgrounds) of the Japanese arcade game Nekketsu Koha: Kunio-Kun, released earlier the same year by Technos. It is an immediate technological predecessor to Double Dragon, and Nekketsu Koha: Kunio-Kun is a thematic prequel to River City Ransom.

In Renegade, the player controls a nameless thug who fights a variety of street gangs on his way to save his nameless girlfriend. Unlike other similar games like Double Dragon and Final Fight, the playfield is limited to one two-screen-wide area (a subway platform, a park, an alley, a parking lot) and does not scroll continuously. Out of the four levels in the game, the first and third each begin with the player fighting a group made up of two different types of enemies; one with a stronger attack but less hit points, and one with a weaker attack and the ability to hold the player, but more hit points. When only three of these enemies remain (in any combination of the two) their boss will come in from the sidelines and join the fight. When the boss is defeated, all remaining enemies retreat off the bottom of the screen, and the stage ends. The second stage follows this same formula, but begins with motorcycles trying to run the player down, and brings in the normal enemies once the motorcycles have been defeated. The fourth level replaces the two normal types of enemies with a single type of knife-wielding enemy who can kill the player in one hit.

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